Steroids in Baseball
The debate to when the steroids era began is just that a debate. Most people put the time frame around the late 1990’s when the homerun races were beginning to heat up. With each new record broken other players wanted a piece of the action and would do anything to get there.
What is said is it may not have even been the records that many of these players were chasing, but rather the celebrity feeling. Baseball players became pop culture icons for a time being and everyone would stop and watch with each new homerun and watched, as another record was broken.
Those were not in the spotlight felt left out of the glitz and glam of the highlight reels. This spun a jealousy that propelled people to find new ways to get an edge over the competition.
It probably started with work out supplements that became controversial. Reporters questioned many baseball players as to what they were taking for their work out regimen. Stretching the limits became a way of life and with each new revelation came a following to get the upper hand.
This created a snow ball effect with more and more players taking performance enhancing drugs, because they say that others were doing it. There seemed to be no moral police at this time, and no one stood up to say no. Read the rest of this entry »
